was Guillermo Rigondeaux a one hit wonder?

lol Nope! I had nonstop heard for years how great he was. So there HAS to be some truth to that!

Before the Loma whoopin he was “One of the ALL TIME PFP GREATS DOE! With arguably the best amateur run in history! He breaks bones and **** in people faces! Absolute assassin of a counter puncher!”

So… no. He had his time. IMO a very good fighter. I actually think he’d probably snipe Inoue if they fought before Rigo hit 38. Rigo was highly dangerous into his late 30’s.

 

No.
It´s not like Rigo beat Donaire, and then got whooped by some B level dude. He just had a really thought time getting meaningful fights, and his own attitude and ego did not help. I still remember Leo Emo Cruz demanding $3 million for a fight with Rigo... mother****er at the time was making less than $1 million per fight, same as Rigo. Dude wanted more money than both mans combined career high purses.

Rigo´s management was ass tho, and Bob Arum intentionally sabotaged his career.

 

Yes.

 

Considering the rumor that he’s over 60 years old right now he should actually be considered the best boxer ever lol

 

You'll see people say no, but you won't see anyone list his HoF resume.

 

Yep. His pro career was nothing to write home about, that's for sure. He put on a fantastic performance vs Donaire and never got close to it again.

He couldn't do nothing against Loma. couldn't even have had a tiny bit of success against Loma, he couldn't do a single thing, Loma outboxed him thoroughly and embarasssed him

 

He must've done something to have Inoue's fanboys acting butthurt in 2025.

 

His lack of big fights and age really hurt him. He could have hung with pretty much anyone around his weight, in his best day, imo

 

Beating donaire for some reason did more harm than good, TV channels didn't want him and the other top fighters were scared to fight him too

 

I stop listening when anyone gives Loma credit for beating a man who's naturally 3 divisions smaller than him. For that I can't participate in the discussion.

 

No, he was the best Super Bantemweight of his generation, none of the other fighters at that weight class didn’t want anything to do with him, Carl Frampton, Santa Cruz and Scott Quigg absolutely and openly ducked him. He’s undefeated at that weight class and only took losses past his prime at Featherweight and Bantamweight.

 

He was in the high risk low reward bracket for the majority of his career, which also started fairly late.

The lack of excitement in his fights also meant there wasn't much clamour for bigger fights from elsewhere.

 

1. He beat a prime Donaire fairly easily whereas Inoue almost got stopped by a 38 year old version.
2. He knocked out Ceja while completely past it. Ceja then put the first blemish on Fugueroa's record, and Fulton's entire reputation is based on beating Figueroa.

This must be why Inoue fanboys get nervous when Rigondeaux's name is brought up.